Hence my ellipses. The unspoken "etc" because it would take a lot of time and space to list everyone and I would definitely not remember everyone. But yes, Aika can come to the party.

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"I think I'm losing it. I'm pulling out my hair trying to figure out what couch defines me as a person. This is freaking madness. This is hopeless. This... my perfect little habitat here, and I still don't even know who I am." - from Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom by Burnt By The Sun

Registering trademarks is not free, but the cost of registering three trademarks versus one is fairly negligible for a multinational corporation. They probably spent less than $3,000 on all three. It is entirely possible that they filed intents to use for all three just before they started doing market research to see which name worked best just to make sure someone involved in the research didn't trademark the best name and increase the costs by forcing them to fight for the name.

Registering trademarks is not free, but the cost of registering three trademarks versus one is fairly negligible for a multinational corporation. They probably spent less than $3,000 on all three. It is entirely possible that they filed intents to use for all three just before they started doing market research to see which name worked best just to make sure someone involved in the research didn't trademark the best name and increase the costs by forcing them to fight for the name.

Lol they should've done the market research before choosing those 3 rather than after.

Registering trademarks is not free, but the cost of registering three trademarks versus one is fairly negligible for a multinational corporation. They probably spent less than $3,000 on all three. It is entirely possible that they filed intents to use for all three just before they started doing market research to see which name worked best just to make sure someone involved in the research didn't trademark the best name and increase the costs by forcing them to fight for the name.

Lol they should've done the market research before choosing those 3 rather than after.

Maybe they just wanted to play the name shell game, where you have three guesses but only one right answer (and no, looking up trademarks for the answer isn't going to work).

Registering trademarks is not free, but the cost of registering three trademarks versus one is fairly negligible for a multinational corporation. They probably spent less than $3,000 on all three. It is entirely possible that they filed intents to use for all three just before they started doing market research to see which name worked best just to make sure someone involved in the research didn't trademark the best name and increase the costs by forcing them to fight for the name.

Lol they should've done the market research before choosing those 3 rather than after.

Maybe all 3 are or were in development.There's tons of games that never leave the prototype phase, and as such, we never hear about.

Registering trademarks is not free, but the cost of registering three trademarks versus one is fairly negligible for a multinational corporation. They probably spent less than $3,000 on all three. It is entirely possible that they filed intents to use for all three just before they started doing market research to see which name worked best just to make sure someone involved in the research didn't trademark the best name and increase the costs by forcing them to fight for the name.

Lol they should've done the market research before choosing those 3 rather than after.

Maybe all 3 are or were in development.There's tons of games that never leave the prototype phase, and as such, we never hear about.